It occurred to me that a lot of what I've been doing at work amounts to collecting and redistributing proverbial fishing rods just so that people stop bugging me about the same thing over and over again. And if I ever want to have people stop asking me for fishing rods, I need to move into the business of teaching people to make fishing rods from materials at hand. And all I wanted was just to be left alone and write some software.

(Ignore the sound of the metaphor cracking on its seams)